Word: totality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gathering momentum, but pessimists warned, "Wait a while." Last week the August figures were released, and the pessimists were proved right. The gap between imports and exports widened to $12.2 billion, up from July's $9.5 billion. While the deficit has been shrinking this year -- to an estimated total of $140 billion, compared with $170 billion in 1987 -- progress may be slowing. That prospect has aborted the U.S. dollar's summer rally. The currency fell last week to 128.25 yen, capping a decline of 4% since August. The plunging dollar reflected the belief among traders that a weaker currency will...
WISCONSIN. Democrat William Proxmire used to pay the $145 filing fee, and that constituted his total campaign expenditure. This year it cost supermarket magnate Herbert Kohl $3 million of his own money just to succeed the retiring Proxmire as the Democratic nominee. Kohl, owner of the Milwaukee Bucks . basketball team, makes a virtue of his wealth: "a Senator just for you." He will face the only woman nominated for a Senate seat this year, Susan Engeleiter, a moderate who is Republican leader of the state senate...
...past six weeks, three leading gulf producers -- Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates -- have opened their spigots, increasing OPEC's total output nearly 10%, to 21 million bbl. a day. Because worldwide demand for OPEC's crude amounts to only about 19 million bbl., the overflow has created a price-dampening glut. West Texas Intermediate, the benchmark U.S. crude, fell earlier this month to $12.60 per bbl., a drop of nearly $3 from its level in August and more than $7 from a year ago. The price edged upward last week, closing at $14.92 per bbl., reflecting expectations...
This year, the Head will feature more than 3500 rowers in 840 boats, competing in a total of 16 individual and crew races. The course begins at the Boston University Bridge and spans three miles to the finish line near the Herter Center on Soldiers Field Road...
...learn to hold on to the football. The past few weeks he looked like he was carrying around a greased watermelon. Hold on, Tony. Hinz has rushed 420 yards in five games this year. Silas Myers moved into second on the rushing list last week. Myers has a grand total of 68 yards rushing...